Things to Make And Mend (2012)
“Unusual. It has a shimmering, peaceful quality and it alludes to something precious, which, of course, she is. A pearl is something beautiful that has emerged from a tough time. When she named her, she did not think of its overtones of old women, of old women who were young when beehive hairstyles and kohl eyeliner and Capstan cigarettes were in fashion.Pearl.Iridescent. Moon-like.She thought also of that line in Othello, that moved her once in an English lesson at school, Rowena’s chair empty ...beside her: … then you must speak Of one that lov’d not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe … ‘So you’re going to be mother-of-pearl,’ John said when Sally had finally made her mind up about the name. (They had agreed that she, having lumbered enormously about and given birth, should be the one with the final say.) ‘Nacre.’‘Sorry?’‘Nacre.MoreLess
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